| Pub. Date | : June, 2022 |
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| Product Name | : The IUP Journal of Entrepreneurship Development |
| Product Type | : Article |
| Product Code | : IJED030622 |
| Author Name | : Basiru Haliru |
| Availability | : YES |
| Subject/Domain | : Management Journals |
| Download Format | : PDF Format |
| No. of Pages | : 22 |
The study assesses the impact of entrepreneurial education on the entrepreneurial intention among Sokoto State University students. The study adopts survey research design, using a structured questionnaire that was administered to 50 students. The techniques of analysis employed are descriptive and inferential statistics; regression and Pearson correlation. The results of the analysis reveal that entrepreneurship studies have a negative effect on entrepreneurial intentions, while correlation results reveal the negative relationship between entrepreneurial studies and entrepreneurial intentions. The findings of the study recommend that there is a need to make entrepreneurial studies and skills more effective, which will help develop strong entrepreneurial intention among the students of Sokoto State University.
In developing countries, entrepreneurship is considered vital for increasing employment opportunities. This impact of entrepreneurship is also evident from territories which reported a decline in the unemployment levels because they have higher level of entrepreneurial initiative indexes (Audretsch, 2002). In spite of such global recognition, entrepreneurship remains limited in Nigeria. This happens due to limited attention of policymakers and government towards entrepreneurship in the past, and lower level of growth in key indicators for starting new businesses and limited economy to absorb shocks (Haque, 2007). Entrepreneurship education has been recognized as one of the important determinants of entrepreneurial intentions. Various studies like Galloway and Brown (2002), Fayolle et al. (2006), Potter (2008), Henderson and Robertson (2000), Di and Swanson (2013) empirically demonstrated entrepreneurial education as an important determinant of entrepreneurial intentions. Although the importance of entrepreneurship education has been recognized in the literature, limited empirical studies have been conducted to analyze the impact on entrepreneurial intention separately from general education (Peterman and Kennedy, 2003).